On Tuesday, Alisa Weilerstein presented a concert of J.S. Bach’s Cello Suite No. 1 in G major interleaved with five living composers. Who were they? Unless you grabbed a pamphlet-sized program on your ...

Latvian superstar cellist and conductor Margarita Balanas has taken her career to new heights, playing some beautiful Bach in a hot air balloon. Cellist Margarita Balanas is known for her stunning ...

Yo-Yo Ma’s two-year world tour of the complete Bach Solo Cello Suites is one of the great musical events of the century. It began in Colorado on Aug. 1, 2018 to a packed Red Rocks amphitheatre on a ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Alisa Weilerstein’s latest project is a series of staged solo recitals that weave Bach’s cello suites with newly commissioned works. By David Allen ...

Bach’s cello suites are among the best known works of classical music, now risking popularization to the point of fatigue as they provide background music for cat food commercials. But one hundred and ...

In her determination to be interesting, the cellist Alisa Weilerstein has made herself perplexing. She is deeply immersed in “Fragments,” a multiyear mission in which she’s commissioning short pieces ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. Warm, rich and lyrical, the cello is the instrument whose sound we often think of as closest to the ...

Back in 2017, the Museum of Fine Arts Boston hired Shirley Hunt to play a special centennial event to commemorate a large donation of historical instruments by a museum trustee. Hunt, a Boston-based ...

Bach in the rain, and a musical wedding day moment unlikely to be forgotten… A few years ago, just moments before a wedding was about to take place in Wiltshire, southwest England, heavy rain hit.